Month: August 2024

Caribbean governments Friday appealed to the region to take precautions against the mpox disease outbreak saying it is not impossible for it to spread from Africa to the Caribbean in the coming months. Bloc Chairman and Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said health officials and the public need to be on the lookout especially for the clade1b version of the disease as he called for a proactive posture to prevent […]

Though his band is not participating this year in Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Association’s (WIADCA) panorama competition, Trinidadian pannist Brian Nicholas is still very busy practicing and preparing Blacklove Steel Orchestra for prospective performances. Nicholas, the founder and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn-based Blacklove Steel Orchestra, told Caribbean Life that he is “looking at a broader picture” in which he envisages Blacklove’s future participation in WIADCA’s panorama, competing […]

Since dropping the hard-hitting “Ghetto People Song” 30 years ago that made him a household name, veteran singer Everton Blender’s career is about to take flight again with his latest project, “Can’t Take my Space,” a new album that is scheduled for release later this month. Blender, 68, told Caribbean Life on Monday that the 14-song disc is his first studio album since his last album in 2011, titled “Higher […]

In participating this year, for the very first time, in the West Indian American Day Carnival, the Brooklyn-based On Your Toes Dance Studio will be portraying the “The Four Elements” in the Junior Carnival category. “On Your Toes Dance Studio has been serving the community with high quality for 15 years and decided to launch our own junior mas band,” Jamaican-American band leader Althea Holmes, who also owns On Your […]

By the end of this year, the Trinidad government would ensure that the national coat of arms no longer bears the images of the three ships that Christopher Columbus and his sailors used on their maiden voyage to “rediscover” the West Indies more than 800 years ago, saying it will be removed as part of the process of sanitizing the country from its colonial past. Prime Minister Keith Rowley told […]

As the US Presidential Elections draw closer and after the New York State Court of Appeals affirmed the constitutionality of the New York Early Mail Voter Act, New York Attorney General Letitia James has vowed to continue protecting New Yorkers’ voting rights. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) had defended from a lawsuit brought by opponents challenging the Legislature’s authority to enact mail-in voting. “The right to vote is […]

Rarely one would see a consul general headlining a major cultural event. But that was the case on Saturday, as St. Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General to the United States Rondy “Luta” McIntosh, a renowned soca artiste, clearly, outperformed other artistes, as he brought the house down, stage-side, at the massive annual Vincy Day USA Picnic at the picturesque Heckscher State Park in East Islip, Suffolk County, Long Is. […]

Jamaica and global dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel is planning a series of comeback concerts in the region starting in late December but before then, it appears that he wants wrap up treatment for Graves’ disease and St. Vincent could be the place where he gets treated. Adidja Palmer flew to St. Vincent on a private jet at the weekend along with his wife and former West Indies star all rounder […]

A Caribbean Community team which along with regional leaders and western nations had recently helped member state, Haiti, put together an interim government as heavily armed gangs were causing mayhem in the capital, has been told that the much vaunted Kenyan police officers contingent has had little impact controlling violent crime. The regional Eminent Persons Group (EPG) made up of former prime ministers Bruce Golding of Jamaica, Kenneth Anthony of […]